Current & ex trainees

Hamidreza Akef hakef@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering · Soloveichik lab
Andrei Amatuni andreiamatuni@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Preston lab
Website
knowledge acquisition · concept learning · neural networks
Gabriele Amorosino
PostDoc · Pestilli lab
Website
NeuroAI · neuroimaging pipelines
RJ Antonello rjantonello@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Huth lab
Publications
natural language processing · computational neuroscience
Aditya Arcot arcot.aditya@utexas.edu
Undergrad · Depts. of Computer Science & Neuroscience · Huth lab
Website
language · computational neuroscience
Omer Ashmaig oeashmaig@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Preston lab
learning & memory · electrophysiology · intracranial EEG
Yoon Bai
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Goris lab
Publications
systems neuroscience
Megan Baker mnbaker@utexas.edu
PhD student · Santacruz lab
Website · Publications
electrode manufacturing · carbon nanotube · primate
Cole Barnett colebarnett@utexas.edu
PhD student · Santacruz lab
decision-making · neural stimulation
Logan Becker lbecker95@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Taillefumier lab
computational modeling · neural dynamics · statistical neuroscience
Giulia Berto giulia.berto@austin.utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Pestilli lab
Publications
neuroimaging · machine learning · data science
Dheeraj Bhatia
Undergrad Research Assistant · Pestilli lab
Website
Marietjie Botes
PostDoc · Pestilli lab
Website
data governance · legal
Zoe Boundy-Singer zoebsinger@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Goris lab
Publications
electrophysiology · computational modeling · visual perception · confidence
Yin-Jui (Derek) Chang derek706586@utexas.edu
PhD student · Santacruz lab
Website · Publications
BMI · GAN · computational neuroscience
Julie Charlton
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Goris lab
Website
Chloe Chen
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Miikkulainen lab
computational neuroscience · cognitive science · language modeling
Gabriela Coello-Reyes reyes.gabriela09@utexas.edu
Lab Manager · Dept. of Psychology · Goris lab
Website
Christine Coughlin cacoughlin@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Preston lab
Website · Publications
neurocognitive development · episodic memory · episodic future-thinking · learning · neuroimaging
Abhranil Das abhranil.das@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Geisler lab
Website · Publications
physics · vision science · computational neuroscience · psychedelic science
Peyton Demetrovich pdemetrovich@utmail.utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Colgin lab
Website
Meg Donahue mmdonahue@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Colgin lab
electrophysiology · hippocampus · spatial cognition
Antonio Fernández antonio.fernandez@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Pestilli lab
Website · Publications
covert attention · computational neuroscience · neuroimaging
Mengcun Gao
PostDoc · Preston lab
developmental cognition · attention · memory · reasoning · neuroimaging · computational modeling
Sihang Guo sguo19@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Huth and Pestilli labs
Publications
Anibal Sólon Heinsfeld anibalsolon@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Pestilli lab
Website · Publications
deep learning · brain imaging · open science
Enrique Contreras Hernandez
PostDoc · Santacruz lab
Publications
electrophysiology · neural coding · neuroprosthetics · spinal cord
Shailee Jain shailee@cs.utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Huth lab
Website · Publications
computational neuroscience · machine learning · natural language processing
Grace Jeanpierre grace.jeanpierre@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Santacruz lab
deep brain stimulation
Liam Jennings jenningsliam@utexas.edu
PhD student · Priebe lab
V1 excitability · motion representation · whole-cell electrophysiology
Myles Joyce myles.joyce@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Harris lab
Colin Kaeo cdk2234@my.utexas.edu
PhD student · Santacruz lab
microelectrode arrays · psychiatric-disorder treatment
Stephen Kiilu
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Pestilli lab
Website
psychology · statistics · computer science
Shun Kobayashi
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Seidemann and Wei labs
vision · computation · neuroscience
Satwant Kumar
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Seidemann lab
Website · Publications
systems neuroscience · computational vision · vision neuroscience
Junbeom Kwon
Graduate student · Dept. of Psychology · Pestilli lab
neuroimaging · NeuroAI
Thomas Langlois
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Wei lab
Website · Publications
Dylan Le dylanle@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Wei lab
computational neuroscience · spatial coding · cognitive maps · topology
Isabella Lee
Scientist Assistant · Dept. of Neuroscience · Colgin lab
Website
Baowang Li libaowang@utexas.edu
Research Associate · Dept. of Psychology · Priebe lab
Publications
visual cortex · behavior · whole-cell · detection
Angel Lopez alopez0843@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Neuroscience · Colgin lab
Publications
Hung-Yun Lu hungyun.lu@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Biomedical Engineering · Santacruz lab
Publications
dopamine · fast-scan cyclic voltammetry · primate
Salim M'jahad mjahad@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Seidemann lab
visual perception · systems neuroscience · computational neuroscience · optogenetics · optical imaging
Jongmin Moon jmoon@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Goris lab
Website
Carter Moore
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Mauk lab
Neal W Morton neal.morton@austin.utexas.edu
Research Associate · Dept. of Neuroscience · Preston lab
Website · Publications
episodic & semantic memory · computational modeling · neuroimaging
Jianing Mu jmu@utexas.edu
PhD student · Preston lab
episodic & semantic memory · naturalistic paradigms
Jens-Oliver Muthmann ollimuh@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Goris lab
Website · Publications
Andrea Nam ajnam@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Harris lab
astrocytes · 3DEM · computational modeling
Tien Dung Nguyen tien-dung.nguyen@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Goris lab
Website
visual processing · robustness · adversarial networks
Can Oluk
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Geisler lab
Website · Publications
Ronan O'Shea ronan_oshea@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Priebe and Wei labs
Publications
vision · imaging · neural network models
Sangjun Park sangjun@cs.utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Miikkulainen lab
Website
large language models · reasoning · neuroevolution · cognitive NLP
Jagruti Pattadkal jagruti@austin.utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Neuroscience · Priebe lab
Website · Publications
in-vivo · two-photon · intracellular
Katy Pilarzyk kpilarzyk@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Neuroscience · Harris lab
Publications
neuroscience · learning & memory · synaptic plasticity
Blaire Porter
PostDoc · Pestilli lab
Website
developmental cognitive neuroscience
Divya Prabhakaran divyapr@cs.utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Miikkulainen lab
bilingual lexicon modeling · cognitive NLP · neuroimaging
Yu (Eric) Qian
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Wei lab
Akash Raj
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Goris lab
sensory perception · decision-making · confidence
Avinash Ranjan
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Goris lab
neural computation · perception
Kimberly Ray kimray@utexas.edu
Research Assistant Professor · Dept. of Psychology · Pestilli lab
Publications
cognitive neuroscience · fMRI · imaging
Nicholas Riveira
Undergrad · Depts. of Neuroscience & Computer Engineering · Colgin lab
Website
Emma Robson emmarobson@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Neuroscience · Colgin lab
Website
neuroscience · cell biology · physiology
Jennifer Rozenblitt
PhD student · Taillefumier lab
Jayanth R T jayanth.r.t@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering · Colgin and Millan labs
Website · Publications
spatial cognition · hippocampus · real-time decoding · computational modeling
Jason Samonds samonds@austin.utexas.edu
Research Associate · Dept. of Neuroscience · Priebe lab
Website · Publications
visual cortex · neurophysiology · inference · stereopsis · eye movements · autism
Stephen Sebastian sebastian@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Geisler lab
Website · Publications
Mandi Severson mseverson@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Priebe lab
Website
visual cortex · behavior
Hormoz Shahrzad hormoz@cs.utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Miikkulainen lab
evolutionary computation · neuroevolution · game playing
Amina Shmanova
PhD student · Preston lab
memory integration · generalization · reasoning · development
Nadia Siles
PhD student · Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering · Soloveichik lab
Yasmine Sleiman ysleiman@utexas.edu
PhD student · Santacruz lab
neurodevelopment · brain-region communication · electrical stimulation
Hannah Stealey hannahstealey@utexas.edu
PhD student · Santacruz lab
traumatic brain injury · rodent · computational modeling · neuropsychiatric disorder
Chia-Yu (Joyce) Sung
PhD student · Dept. of Biochemistry · Soloveichik lab
Pin Kwang 'PK' Tan
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Seidemann and Wei labs
Website · Publications
visual perception · optical imaging · optogenetics · computational neuroscience
Jerry Tang jtang@cs.utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Huth lab
Website
language · brain-computer interface
Shelby Towers sat3364@my.utexas.edu
PhD student · Colgin lab
Aditya Vaidya avaidya@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Huth lab
Website · Publications
language · computational neuroscience
Calen Walshe
PostDoc · Dept. of Psychology · Geisler lab
Website · Publications
visual neuroscience · cognitive science
Zhen Wei zhen.wei@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Seidemann and Geisler labs
visual psychophysics · computational modelling · visual neurophysiology
Philip Whitman
PostDoc · Taillefumier lab
Matt Whitmire matt.whitmire@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Dept. of Neuroscience · Seidemann lab
Website · Publications
Zhongxuan Wu zhongxuanwu@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Wei lab
spatial navigation · cognitive function · computational modeling
Jiaming Xu
PhD student · Dept. of Psychology · Goris lab
visual prediction · naturalistic environments · neural computation
Zeyuan Ye
PostDoc · Wei lab
And Yilmaz
PhD student · Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering · Soloveichik lab
Hiroichi Yoshida hy5476@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Seidemann lab
Daniel Young danyoung@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Computer Science · Miikkulainen lab
Website
AI for social good · evolutionary algorithms · multi-agent systems
Luyan Yu luyan.yu@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Physics · Taillefumier lab
Website
computational neuroscience · neural networks · spike-train inference
Liu Yuezhang lyz@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience
Website · Publications
computational neuroscience · deep reinforcement learning · memory
Anqi Zhang anqizhang@utexas.edu
PhD student · Dept. of Physics · Geisler lab
Website · Publications
vision science · statistical physics · computational neuroscience
Yi Zhao
PhD student · Dept. of Biomedical Engineering · Santacruz lab
Website
local field potential · computational modelling · visual neurophysiology
Shujun Zhou
PhD student · Dept. of Neuroscience · Wei lab
Corey Ziemba ziemba@utexas.edu
PostDoc · Goris lab
Publications
computational neuroscience · visual perception · decision-making